"Only the self-sufficient stand alone–most people follow the crowd and imitate."

"Choose the positive. You are master of your attitude."

"The possession of anything begins in the mind."

"I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine."

"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."

"Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality."

"Heavens, how I like to be alone!"

"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."

"Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us."

"So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters."

"It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men."

"Thinking is my fighting."